My book, A Well-Built Faith, has been translated into Chinese! How cool is that?! đŸ™‚
Newsworthy
The 4 Pillars of Our Faith: Prayer
This week, I’m featuring short excerpts from my book, A Well-Built Faith, focusing on the 4 pillars of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Here’s a brief look at the fourth pillar: Prayer. A survey conducted years ago asked people in successful marriages to identify the top ten qualities of a healthy marriage. One might think that sex, given all the attention it is given in our culture, would have been the number one quality. […]
Books
Living the Mass – in Chinese!
I enjoyed a proud moment the other day when I was handed a copy of my book, Living the Mass, translated into Chinese! The translation was done by Cecilia Tao, a friend of Fr. George Lane, S.J., President of Loyola Press. I co-authored Living the Mass with Fr. Dom Grassi in 2005. Cecilia tells me that the book is able to be sold in China in churches but not in bookstores. Here’s a pic of […]
Books
Making Faith Portable, Shareable, Adaptable, and Replicable
My good friend and colleague in ministry, Julianne Stanz, wisely reminds us that our faith is and must be “portable, shareable, and adaptable.” I couldn’t agree more! I’ve always used the word replicable with reference to catechesis, meaning that those we teach should be able to pass along or share with others what we have shared with them. The word catechesis means “to echo!” An echo is a replication of a sound, and those we […]
That is indeed cool.
Is the market China and Hongkong?
I believe it’s China
It really creates a joyful spirit in the updates we have for our catechism.Every day I always give time to open my computer, and the first thing I look at my yahoo account is the catechist journey.It is a lot of inspiration. It an experience where there is awholesome communication for all catechist, to of one mind,united in spirit an ideals, necessary for our spiritual growth as catechist.Honestly,I am so proud of being a catechist more than I am proud of my being a teacher-nurse-midwife.It is a feeling beyond all our human understanding,for God”s ways are not mans ways.Yes, I can speak a little of Chinese,And wow, what a wonderful idea to translate God”s words to languages all over the world.
Thanks, Elisa. That’s a few more words than I can speak in Chinese which is 0!
This comment came via email from Charlotte (a person, not the city!)
Thank you so much for your wonderful ideas and help. I teach second grade with children who are receiving their Reconciliation and Holy Communion this year, so it is a challenge. If you have any suggestions for second grade, I would so very much appreciate it. This week I’m using your “Signs” to lead into my Sacraments lesson while reviewing the Trinity, which is really hard for second graders
Again, THANK YOU and please keep them coming.
Charlotte McHoul (joemchoul@yahoo.com)
Thanks, Charlotte. Let me know what kind of specific help you’re looking for and we can put the word out to the 2nd grade catechists out there who can share their ideas!